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Oral History of Steve Naroff Part 1, Session 1

Computer History Museum · 2.6K views · 2019-04-19 · 2:30:46

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Computer History Museum oral history of Steve Naroff, an engineer at Stepstone, NeXT and Apple who worked on Objective-C. This first session covers his childhood, music background and early career.

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Pointed to as a primary-source account of Objective-C's origins and the early days of NeXT and Apple.

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Austin_Conlon · 2024-11 · Reference

Related: - Oral History of Blaine Garst [PDF]: [LINK] - Oral History of Blaine Garst [Video]: [LINK] - Oral History of Steve Naroff [PDF]: [LINK] - Oral History of Steve Naroff [Video]: [VIDEO]

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nequo · 2024-08 · Reference

Yes. The Computer History Museum has a two part interview with Steve Naroff, one of the engineers who worked on Objective C: [VIDEO] [LINK]

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cxr · 2020-06 · Reference

At the risk of putting readers off by the title, there's a video essay on YouTube called "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad"[1]. It's both thoughtful and thought-provoking, although I don't agree with the conclusion. Steve Naroff (from Stepstone/NeXT/Apple) did a recent-ish set of interviews with the Computer History Museum[2][3] and referenced that video a bit (and extemporized about objects in small parts throughout). Side note: Naroff and Brad Cox are set to present a paper on Objective-C at this year's HOPL[4]. I wish it were as readily available as Allen Wirfs-Brock's JS paper for the same conference[5][6]. 1. [LINK] 2. [VIDEO] 3. [LINK] 4. [LINK] 5. [LINK] 6. [LINK]

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